The jury in the Orange Taylor III murder trial was scheduled to resume deliberations at 9 a.m. today, after a weekend off.

The jury of 11 women and one man heard a little less than four days of testimony and half a day of closing arguments before they began deliberations at 3:49 p.m. Friday. They deliberated until 5:35 p.m. before calling it a day.

Taylor, 21, is charged with open murder, assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, home invasion and larceny in a building, and faces life in prison with no parole if convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Eastern Michigan University student Laura Dickinson.

Dickinson, 22, was found dead in her dorm room last Dec. 15, more than two days after she was last heard from early Dec. 13. She was lying on the floor next to her bed, nude from the waist down and a pillow over her face.

Medical examiner Bader Cassin ruled that she died of asphyxia, and forensic scientists testified that they found Taylor's semen on her inner thigh
and fibers consistent with Taylor's unusual sweatshirt on her body and clothing.

Taylor's defense was that he found Dickinson dead of a heart ailment, and masturbated over her body.